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Old 05-07-2006
Transfer Files from old Mac to a Linux box?
The other half has informed me that I gotta get my own Internet box (been using her's for over ten years) and my ancient Mac SE30 (when's the last time you heard about one of those) has a bunch of Excel and Word files that I want to move to the next machine.

I know that I can spend significant money, buy an Apple, poison the poor thing with Microsoft products and move my files, but I was thinking of making the change to Linux of some sort without further enrichening Bill Gates et al.

Well, can I do it and how would I do it? I do not have a machine yet, so I can buy appropriate equipment. I am getting advice on where buy hardware, where to find shareware, etc. The big issue is salvaging all of the writing and analysis tools I have already written that reside on the SE30. I have a SCSI port so the big trick would seem to be giving a Linux box a way to read the output, but what do I know, I just use the front end...

Advice gratefully accepted here.

Billski
# 2  
Old 05-09-2006
Please list the name of the filesystem on your old disk partitions and we will check to see if Linux support it. (You can see youself with the Linux fdisk command, BTW).

Linux mount() supports these filesystems:

Quote:
-t vfstype
The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system
type. The file system types which are currently supported are:
adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2,
ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs,
proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs, smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs,
umsdos, usbfs, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv
and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coherent will be
removed at some point in the future -- use sysv instead. Since ker-
nel version 2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore.
Earlier, usbfs was known as usbdevfs.
# 3  
Old 05-10-2006
Thanks for the reply. I am just a Mac user who wants to graduate to Linux and take a bunch of Word and Excel files with me.

I went looking for the file extensions and they are just not shown on the normal Mac screens. Perhaps there is a way to get at the background files and look for extensions?
# 4  
Old 05-10-2006
Pre-PPC macs such as the SE30 are really obscure. You're not going to have much luck in getting anything but another SE30 to read that SCSI drive.

Does your mac have the DOS diskette tool? I believe the easiest way would be to just copy these files to a normal 1.44MB DOS diskette.

This has limitations though. You can only copy using the special DOS floppy program. You will not be able to copy executable files because they will lose their "executable forks", whatever that is. But data files should hopefully still work.

File extensions? If this is a pre-PPC mac, I'm not sure it even has file extensions.
 
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